Before I say goodnight to the most Friday of Fridays and possibly my final Friday of teaching duties until September 2026 thanks to Ogden Trust I've just accepted my place on the CRESTEM @ KCL King's School of Education Communication & Society MA in STEM Education programme starting in September 2023.

I am doing some CS4FN computing summer school workshops for primary age kids at the Royal Institution in August. One on AI, one a magic workshop. See
teachinglondoncomputing.org/2023/07/18/pau…

Well done Matthew Wimpenny-Smith FCCT 🙋‍♂️👾👨‍💻 and Richard Berryman for getting semantic waves into your presentation 🤗 #hantscomp2023

Great to see so many #microbit projects in Computing Education Research at IDC2024 Micro:bit Educational Foundation
This is Exploring Computational Thinking with Physical Play through Design The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) ATLAS Institute 🦬 CU Boulder 🦬
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35…

Great to be joining some amazing practitioners this morning to talk about #ReclaimingPedagogy in #EYFS

#reflect #TeamEC #Connect

Really looking forward to starting our nowpressplay free trial next week St Nicholas after seeing them Bett Global

Thanks for the tip off Mark Anderson 🤗 #caschat

FREE family festival fun in Stepney Green from Queen Mary University of London / Queen Mary Centre for Public Engagement - the Festival of Communities 2023. QMUL Electronic Engineering and Computer Science staff will be there, including @CS4FN teachinglondoncomputing.org/2023/05/22/fre… ^JB

For students / teachers of OCR GCSE Computer Science J277:

This playlist might help: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

I hope it helps you see how I break down concepts.

Previously used as flipped homework for my students.

Wishing you all the best for the exam season.

So today was my first day of independent work. I spent the day provided bespoke training on #3Dprinting and #lasercutting for #primary teachers It went really well. Happy to support schools with their #Computing journeys. #caschat #primary #training

I am very happy to announce that the hardback of our book Conjuring with Computation started with Peter McOwan before he died and then a long time in the finishing will be out in June. Learn both magic and computer science across 50 chapters of tricks. See conjuringwithcomputation.wordpress.com

What's coming up in April and May (and early warning of Paul Curzon workshops in August for kids). teachinglondoncomputing.org/2023/04/17/tec…

Do it!

#K12CS #Teachers : Are you ready to take your learning/PD w/ @a2zk21cs to the next level⁉️
🚨📢We are thrilled to unveil csa2z.com—chk out companion pages for each ch. w/ discussion Qs, resources & ideas to help you get more from this already gr8 book 🥳 #SIGCSE2023

Techy Talks and other events coming up in March & April 2023 teachinglondoncomputing.org/2023/03/07/tec…

'...You will explore the love letter writing algorithm by creating your own unplugged version. We will also briefly overview some of Strachey's other contributions including his secret to being a 'wizard debugger' and programming teacher.' teachinglondoncomputing.org/2023/02/13/pau…

The Dark History of Algorithms cs4fn.blog/2023/02/13/the…

Teaching Teachers Tech: Computing with Python – online course from @BCS for GCSE teachers ^JB teachinglondoncomputing.org/2023/01/26/tea…

Some computing- and computation-themed talks that are coming up in the first quarter of 2023 (some online, some in person, many are free) ^JB teachinglondoncomputing.org/2023/01/03/tec…

NORAD uses radar and geosyncrhonous satellites in its Santa tracker noradsanta.org/en/map but FlightRadar24 has added a transponder to his sleigh flightradar24.com/multiview/2ea2… (more detail here include using reindeer antlers as suitable antennae flightradar24.com/blog/tracking-…) ^JB

Possibly the most exciting post in our CS4FN Christmas Computing Advent Calendar is this one, about how you can track Father Christmas and his reindeer as he delivers presents this Christmas Eve ^JB cs4fn.blog/2021/12/24/cs4…